Westminster College - Argo Yearbook (New Wilmington, PA)

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HERE is no truer sign of a broad and liberal culture than a genuine appreciation of the highest forms of Music and Art. He is a man 0 i 1 with but half a mind, whose ears are dull to the one and his eyes blind to the other. Not long ago, a great and simple inan, in speaking of Music, let fall this striking phrase- the Glory of the Eternally Beautiful Music. Every lover of Music will see at once the truth and beauty of the expression. But not less quickly Will every lover of painting recognize the Iaptness of the phrase as regarding Art. The man or woman who is blind to the beauty of these two worlds, is missing a part of the greatest glory of life, and his mind, in these respects, lies like an uncultivated garden. Nor do we need, as many suppose, a technical education in order to appre- ciate Art. Skill in painting may give a large knowledge of the mechanical part 42

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Bach . Bach . Beethoven Godard Grieg . Schumann Richter Chopin Chopin Liszt . Ambrose, Herbert, Grieg, Chandon, Stainer, November 22, 1904. . . P1-elude and Fugue in B Hat From the well-tempered Clavichord . . . . . Gavotte in D From the sixth violoncello suite . . Sonata Op 13 Clnathetiqtiej Grave- Molto allegro, Adagio, Allegro . . Teasing Chilcl, . . . Au Matin Op 83 . . . Butterlly Op. 43, No. l Rider of the Hobby Horse, Traumerei From Scenes from Childhood Op. 15 . Gondelliecl in F sharp minor . . . Prelude in D flat NValtz in A Hat, Op. 34, No. 1 . Rhapsoclie Hongroise No. G january 27, 1905. PART I. M Ri USSHER Bridal Procession Passing By, MR. VVEDDELL PART II. . A Madrigal Ah, Love Me and On lhe Carnaval. From Suite Op. 19 . . An Old Love Song . . . . The Crucilixion MR. JOHN C. USSHER, Tenor MR. C1-ms. FREEMAN, Bass MR. WILLIAM P. MCCORMICK, Baritone DIRECTORS ROOM-CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC 4.1

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of producing a picture, and yet no work of the painter show any glory of eternal beautyf, Among the Russian pictures at the St. Louis Fair, was a rough, unfinished-looking painting of a shepherdess and some sheep. It was a study in oils, done by a poor, oppressed, eighteen-year-old Russian peasant lad, who could neither read nor write. He had seen an artist at Work in his village, and when the man returned the next summer, the boy showed him the sketch, and was at once urged and helped to go to St. Petersburg for the training he needed. Thus we see that there may be great skill, but no per- ception of beauty, and, on the other hand, a Wonderful, poetical conception of the glory of all true Art, and little skill The man who has both skill and true artistic instincts, is a genius. The most of us, however, can be appreciative even if we have little or no skill, and can, by observation and study. be able to know a good picture. Westminster College has an Art Department, which, while sadly lacking inf much needed equipment, has been able to produce good work. Wfhy? Be- cause of the high and true ideas of Art entertained by the instructor, and be- cause there is a continual eitort to attain, even in a small measure, in every pupil's work, the best and truest artistic result. Of the long and tiresome struggle to train hands and eyes, of the careful, stroke by stroke, production of a picture, or of the repeated Eirings and tests before the design on the china is fully developed, of all these things, only those in the department can fully know. But the 7'65'1LlfS-- the rivzislzed work - these the College world ought not to pass by! VV hy is it true, that many a student graduates who knows nothing of the work of the Art Department? VV e would justly think him a strange student, who had never attended a Musical Recital during his College course. Is he less ignorant who has never tried to appreciate Art? NVe plead for a fuller recognition and cooperation of Department with Department, so that no student shall leave school without some training along all lines. By opening his mind to the beauties of this world, the student of Wfest- minster will go forth to the battle of life not only armed as was the knight of old, but, like him, also bearing in his heart, the lofty inspiration to courage and honest work that comes from a true love of the Heternally beautiful. 43